DC Gun Owners Must Re-Register And Get Fingerprinted Or Face Jail

Residents of the nation’s capital now are facing one of the most severe gun control laws in the country – one that for the first time in the nation’s history requires gun owners to re-register their guns, as well as get photographed and fingerprinted.

All Washington residents now have a 90-day window to register their guns with the police, The Washington Times reported. This even applies to people who previously registered their guns.

Failure to register a gun within the 90-day window has significant consequences: It is a felony punishable by a $1,000 fine and a year in jail. Also, the gun itself then enters a category of un-registerable guns, “just as though it were a machine gun or a sawed-off shotgun,” The Times reported.

This means that if a gun owner somehow does not know about the law and misses the window, he becomes a felon and his gun cannot be registered.

“A person who fails to renew their firearms registration within 90 days of the deadline (meaning, 90 day renewal period + 90 day grace period = 180 days total) will have their firearm registration cancelled, will be in possession of an unregistered firearm, and may face criminal charges punishable by a fine up to $1,000 or 1 year in jail, or both,” an email from Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump stated.

Registered gun owners will receive a legal notice requiring them to go down to the police station and be photographed and fingerprinted, Police Chief Cathy Lanier told the media.

The registration program could be the most restrictive gun law in the nation, at least regarding handguns. Some details of the program include:

All registered gun owners in Washington D.C. will have to through a fingerprinting and an electronic background check administered by the FBI. The gun owner’s name and fingerprints will be run through the FBI’s National Instant Background Checks System, or NCIS. The idea is to determine if the individual is legally barred from owning a gun.

The author of the law, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, said fingerprinting and background checks were necessary to keep people from registering with false names.

Gun owners will have to pay $18 to get finger printed and $13 to register every gun own they own. “Multiply that times the minimum 30,000 registrants and the city is raking in about a cool $1 million from gun owners. No other right in the Constitutional comes with a cash payment. .” Washington Times writer Emily Miller observed.

Gun owners must go to police headquarters and register their weapons at a specific time. Those born between February 16 and March 31 must register between April 1 and June 30, for example. It will take two years to complete all re-registrations.

The Metropolitan Police Department has already spent $550 on an advertisement for registration that ran in The Washington Times.

Already Being Challenged In Court

“Requiring registration in the first place to exercise a constitutional right is harassment enough,” Stephen Halbrook, a gun rights attorney, told the Times. “Canceling the registration every three years and charging the equivalent of a poll tax to reregister, and requiring citizens to be fingerprinted yet again, adds insult to injury. Criminals in the sex-offender registration system aren’t even subjected to that.”

I am a professional Architect licensed to practice in the State of TEXAS and was told that starting in 2014 license renewals will require every law abiding professional to be fingerprinted with a background check to check the federal database for felonies. Its not just gun owners that are being put into the system and treated like a common criminal. Maybe I should become an illegal alien in California so I can practice Architecture there?

Are the criminals in Washington D.C. going to be subject to the same law? Wait…they are criminals. right? Laws do not stop the lawless and stupid laws are meant to be broken and their originators excoriated as much as possible. I strongly urge those with firearms in Washington D.C. to move out of 20006 as quickly as possible. There are actual places in the USA that aren’t criminal meccas and where you will have the RIGHT to protect yourself, your loved ones and your property. If anything, this is a Clarion Call; we must take back the USA one filthy liar politician at a time and if that can’t be done, vote with your feet.

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